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Email Showdown: Best Buy vs. Target
November 22, 2017 at 7:02 am

Regardless of their team size and budget, todayโ€™s marketers are expected to compete with the world's biggest retailers. Those big-name brands may dominate inboxes, but hereโ€™s the good news: not only do the majority of their tactics work for retailers of all sizes, their visibility in the market means marketers can easily learn from bothโ€ฆ

Email is the Shining Star for Retailers This Holiday Shopping Season
November 21, 2017 at 5:59 pm

SendinBlue recently conducted an online survey with 750 U.S. millennial consumers to gain insights into shopping habits, preferences and plans for the 2017 holiday season. The results revealed key insights, including the fact that most millennials are planning to do their holiday shopping in the first half of December, rather than during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Sixty-six percent of millennials also noted that at least half of their holiday shopping would be done online this year. As for what they want to see from marketers, 60 percent of millennials said they were most likely to engage with email content that promotes sitewide or product category sales.

The State of Personalization in Email
November 21, 2017 at 5:24 pm

SendinBlue recently conducted an online survey with 750 U.S. millennial consumers to gain insights into shopping habits, preferences and plans for the 2017 holiday season. The results revealed key insights, including the fact that most millennials are planning to do their holiday shopping in the first half of December, rather than during Black Friday and [โ€ฆ]

3 Quick Deliverability Tips Ahead of the Holiday Rush
November 10, 2017 at 9:01 am

Holiday spending online is projected to grow more than 15 percent during the 2017 holiday season, and 2 percent for brick-and-mortar stores, according to eMarketer. Thatโ€™s $916 billion in holiday spending opportunity for retailers over the next couple of months. For many, the holiday campaign planning cycle has been in full swing for several weeksโ€ฆ

A Chat With Mike Halula, Retail Analytics Practice Lead for the Americas, Teradata
November 1, 2017 at 2:11 pm

In an interview at the Teradata Partners Conference in Anaheim, Calif., last week, Mike Halula, retail analytics practice lead for the Americas, Teradata, touched on a variety of topics regarding the current and future state of the retail industry: On Marketing to Millennials "Marketers are trying to figure out how customers want to be connectedโ€ฆ

Measuring Emailโ€™s Effectiveness: How Do Top Retailers Stack Up?
October 26, 2017 at 10:19 am

In an interview at the Teradata Partners Conference in Anaheim, Calif., last week, Mike Halula, retail analytics practice lead for the Americas, Teradata, touched on a variety of topics regarding the current and future state of the retail industry: On Marketing to Millennials โ€œMarketers are trying to figure out how customers want to be connected [โ€ฆ]

Do You Still Believe These โ€˜Old Wivesโ€™ Talesโ€™ About Email?
October 13, 2017 at 9:26 am

โ€œDonโ€™t make that face โ€” it will freeze that way!โ€ โ€œWalking under a ladder brings bad luck.โ€ โ€œIndigestion during pregnancy means the baby will have lots of hair.โ€ All of these statements are examples of old wivesโ€™ tales โ€ฆ superstition from long ago. In most cases, these ideas have been around for so long thatโ€ฆ

Woolrich Talks Key Holiday Growth Strategies
October 2, 2017 at 1:09 pm

There's more to Woolrich than just plaid flannel. In episode 112 of Total Retail Talks, Rick English, director of web analytics for the iconic outdoor apparel brand, and Paul Corey, senior account manager, Listrak, discuss Woolrich's key digital growth strategies for the 2017 holiday season. The discussion looks back at the 2016 holiday season toโ€ฆ

Glitch Has Amazon Emailing Gift Alerts for Non-Existent Babies
September 21, 2017 at 12:13 pm

This past Tuesday, Amazon sent a segment of its customers email alerts that an item on their baby registry had been purchased and was on the way. The problem was many of the email recipients weren't pregnant, much less have a baby registry. MarketWatch reports the notifications were due to a glitch on Amazon's part.โ€ฆ

The Inbox Doesnโ€™t Know the World is Falling Apart
September 21, 2017 at 11:19 am

Marketing is hard enough without the uncertainty of macro disruptions. But lately, the threat of a macro disruption seems to lurk behind every corner. Natural disasters, terrorism, the possibility of nuclear war, a tweeter-in-chief who can send the stock market in one direction and the media echo chamber in another with 140 characters or less.โ€ฆ